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Saturday, November 29, 2014 | 12:00 to 14:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
John Snipes Going Where I've Never Been Before Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia Smithsonian Folkways
Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head, & Alec Askew Skillet Good and Greasy Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters, and Hoedowns Rounder
Pink Anderson Boll Weevil Classic African-American Ballads Smithsonian Folkways 1961.
David McCarn Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2) Gastonia Gallop: Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931 Old Hat
Allen Brothers I've Got the Chain Store Blues Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, & End Time Music 1923-1936 Tompkins Square 1930.
Joe and Odell Thompson Pumpkin Pie Going Down to Raleigh: Stringband Music in the North Carolina Piedmont 1976-1998 Pine Cone Recorded 1988.
Carolina Chocolate Drops Short Dress Gal Luminescent Orchestrii Nonesuch
Joan Armatrading How Cruel How Cruel EP A&M
Janis Ian Society's Child Janis Ian Polydor 1967.
Hazel Dickens Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again? By the Sweat of My Brow Rounder
Charley Pride Streets of Baltimore Americana the Beautiful Koch
The New Coon Creek Girls You Live in a World All Your Own Paying Our Respect Turquoise
The Monroe Brothers Have a Feast Here Tonight Are You From Dixie?: Great Country Brother Teams of the 1930s RCA
The Bluegrass Album Band On My Way Back to the Old Home Appalachian Stomp: More Bluegrass Classics Rhino
South Austin Jug Band Bring It on Down Pickin' & Grinnin' Jugband Bob Wills; recorded live at Momo's 2002.
The Derailers Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass Under the Influence of Buck Palo Duro Buck Owens.
99 Tales Baby Out of Jail Poor Little Knitter on the Road Bloodshot
Commonwealth Jones Who's Been Here? Ain't I'm a Dog! 5 More Rockabilly Rave-Ups Columbia
Carl Perkins Dixie Fried Original Sun Greatest Hits Rhino
Mississippi Matilda Hard-Working Woman Baby How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust, and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust to Digital
Rose Maddox Downtown Modesto Queen of the West Varrick Merle Haggard song; with Merle Haggard and the Strangers and Emmylou Harris.
Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts Get Rhythm Girl of the Century Bloodshot
Wanda Jackson Riot in Cell Block #9 Rockin' in the Country Rhino
Sleepy Jeffers Dumplin' Pie Starday-Dixie Rockabilly Vol. 1 Ace 1956-60.
Loretta Lynn Keep Your Change You Ain't Woman Enough MCA
Merle Travis I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size The Merle Travis Story CMH
Harry Jackson Little Joe the Wrangler's Sister Cowboy Songs on Folkways Smithsonian Folkways
The Meat Purveyors Lady Muleskinner Sweet in the Pants Bloodshot
Jerry Dale McFadden Waiting in Your Welfare Line Stand and Cast a Shadow Reptile Buck Owens.
The Lonesome Drifter No Lovin' No Rockin' Blues Eager Boy Norton aka Thomas Johnson.
Texas Wanderers Rackin' It Back Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More from the Golden Years of Western Swing Proper
Patsy Montana & Prairie Ramblers I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing Proper
Hot Rize with Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers Texas Hambone Blues Bluegrass and Country Music Show Flying Fish Wilbur Jones.
Bill Monroe with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Little Cabin Home on the Hill The Original Bluegrass Band Rounder
The Kentucky Colonels Shuckin the Corn Livin' in the Past Sierra
Lonnie Barron Please Blue Heart The Mississippi Farm Boy Woodward Marion Sykes.
Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band Ukelele Lady Jug Band Music Vanguard 1965.
Abner Jay Too Poor to Live, Too Poor to Die Last Ole Ministrel [sic] Man 10" Mississippi 1993.
Michael Hurley Ghost Woman Blues Fatboy Spring Mississippi Early 1970s in Vermont.